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Maven is a social network designed to connect people based on shared interests, not popularity. It uses AI to extract relevant interests from posts and recommends new interests to users, fostering serendipitous connections. Maven aims to be an alternative to popularity-contest social media, focusing on genuine conversation and exploration of ideas. It emphasizes community without followers, a network without borders, and maintains quality through minimal criteria, ensuring diverse content above a certain threshold. Maven is inspired by research into open-endedness in AI, aiming for continual innovation and discovery. It has features like AI-driven interest tags and personalized feeds.
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Features
• minimal criteria for content quality
• interest-based feed customization
• focus on conversation, not promotion
• network without borders
• community without followers
• serendipity network
• ai-driven interest extraction
• follow interests, not influencers
FAQs
What is Maven?
Maven is a new kind of social network–a serendipity network–that doesn’t work like the usual popularity-contest style of network you’re used to experiencing everywhere else.
Why do we need Maven?
It hardly needs repeating that there’s something wrong with social media today. Sensationalism, superficiality, echo chambers, toxicity, endless branding, disinformation, narcissism, and on and on–the issues are familiar.
Who is behind Maven?
Maven is a startup company founded by Ken Stanley, Jimmy Secretan, and Blas Moros.
What is the AI research behind Maven?
Maven is inspired by a research area within AI called _open-endedness_, which is where Ken Stanley focused in most of his research career. Open-endedness concerns systems that continually innovate without bound.
What are minimal criteria and how do they relate to content quality?
Maven maintains quality through minimal criteria, which are based on engagement statistics (not likes and follows), and above which all posts are treated equally.
Why did Ken Stanley decide to start Maven?
I felt and still feel that we need something like Maven to shake up the pervading assumption about how everything has to work through a giant popularity contest.
Is Maven part of a larger company?
No, Maven is an independent startup. It’s a new company that was founded at the very end of 2022.
How do I start using Maven?
When you first onboard, you have not yet told Maven any of your interests, so the initial feed you see is arbitrary (though not empty). From there, it will help to add new interests.
What makes a successful Maven user?
Users who pursue their curiosity, ask interesting questions, or delve deeply into interesting topics will find rich engagement and meet people with similar interests.
What is the thinking behind the (sometimes long) thread format in Maven?
We want it to be more like a natural dinner conversation than some kind of computer-generated tech-world monstrosity.
Does reacting to a post impact its rank within the feed?
No, reacting to a post is an entirely private gesture that will only show up in the notification box of the user who created the post.
Does “liking” a profile impact what I see in my feed?
No, it simply helps you remember users you liked. It has no impact on your feed because it is not the same as a follow, and we do not entertain the idea of “following” on Maven.
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